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Commissa — Sales-Commission Calculator (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted) vs. renting SaaS

Penny-exact commission statements — flat, tiered, or per-category — owned outright.

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The subscription math

Commissa — Sales-Commission Calculator (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted) — yours
$69.00
one-time · self-hosted · your data, your server
Buy once
Core Commissions — rented
Launch "starts at: $20 per payee/per month" (5 rules included, additional rules $0.50/rule); Enterprise $35 per payee/per month with unlimited rules; Managed Services "+$5 per payee/per month". Minimum 15 payees, billed annually in advance; setup and maintenance fees may apply [1]
Break-even: 1 month of Core Commissions equals the one-time price.
Assumption: The $300 is the vendor's own arithmetic, not ours: their entry price of $20 per payee a month at the minimum of 15 payees stated on the same line — before the setup and maintenance fees the page says may apply, and committed a year at a time. A five-person sales team still pays for fifteen. Commissa is $69 once for the statements, with no payee count to price against.
How their pricing grows: Core Commissions meters by PAYEE with a floor under it, and on the entry plan it meters the commission RULES as well — five included, then fifty cents each.
“minimum of 15 payees. pricing is monthly, billed annually in advance” — read 2026-09-03
What Core Commissions does that we don't: Core Commissions runs the whole commission operation — dedicated support, scheduled automated processing, and integration into whatever system the data lives in — and will administer the plan for you as a managed service.
Stay with Core Commissions if you need automated processing wired into your CRM or ERP, a dispute-management module, or someone else administering the plan. Commissa is deliberately smaller: it computes penny-exact statements from exports you import by file, pays nobody, moves no money, and gives reps no logins — one company, one currency, on your own server.
QuotaPath — rented
Growth: $525/month platform fee (includes the first 5 users) plus $35 per additional user per month, billed annually; Premium $800/month platform fee plus $50/user [2]
Break-even: 1 month of QuotaPath equals the one-time price.
Assumption: The platform fee governs for any team of five or fewer: $525/month before a single seat above five (re-read 2026-08-30 and again 2026-09-03 — the earlier $105 figure omitted the fee). Premium also includes the first 5 users, and a Strategic tier is custom-scoped. Enterprise rivals (Spiff, CaptivateIQ) are quote-gated. Commissa computes the same statements once, on your server.

Savings calculator

SaaS figures use the cited plan price above (see the sources below); per-seat plans scale by the seat count from the same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.

Also in this category

Visdum [3]

No public price - the pricing page publishes only what it will not charge: "platform fee $0", "usage / api charges $0", "overage penalties $0", "per-transaction or api fees $0", with the plan price itself behind "book a demo" (verified)
Fetched live 2026-09-03: a whole pricing page of zeroes and no number for the thing being sold. The zeroes are worth recording rather than dismissing — they say the meter is not usage, API calls or admin seats, which is a real answer to a real fear in this category — but the price is still a conversation. Commissa is $69 once, and the page you are reading has the number on it.

How their pricing grows: Visdum sells on the absence of secondary meters — no platform fee, no usage or API charge, no overage penalty, no charge for admins and approvers — while keeping the primary price behind a demo.

“per-transaction or api fees$0”

What Visdum does that we don't: Visdum folds the platform fee into the quote instead of billing it separately, and says so on the page.

Stay with Visdum if you want commissions run as a managed service with integrations and dispute handling. Commissa computes penny-exact statements — flat, tiered or per-category — from exports you import by file, pays nobody, and gives reps no logins.

Why owning beats renting here

  • One payment. No per-month, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
  • Your data stays on your server. Customer records never live in someone else's cloud.
  • No plan ceilings. Records, users, and usage are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
  • It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset out from under you.

Fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply — see the product page for honest limitations.

Sources

  1. Core Commissions — price checked 2026-09-03 — source
    “launch starts at: $20 per payee/per month ... $35 per payee/per month ... managed services starts at: +$5 per payee/per month ... minimum of 15 payees. pricing is monthly, billed annually in advance ... additional rules $0.50/rule”
  2. QuotaPath — price checked 2026-09-03 — source
    “$35 per user per month ... $525/month platform fee ... includes the first 5 users ... Billed annually”
  3. Visdum — price checked 2026-09-03 — source
    “never on your invoice$0no hidden linesplatform fee$0usage / api charges$0overage penalties$0 ... separate platform feefolded in ... per-transaction or api fees$0”

Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.

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